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Solving Under-Determined Models in Linear Spectral Unmixing of Satellite Images: Mix-Unmix Concept (Advance Report)
  DOI :  10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.(2007)51:4(360)  Published OnlineJuly 2007
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This paper reports on a simple novel concept of addressing the problem of underdetermination in linear spectral unmixing. Most conventional unmixing techniques fix the number of end-members on the dimensionality of the data, and none of them can derive multiple (2+) end-members from a single band. The concept overcomes the two limitations. Further, the concept creates a processing environment that allows any pixel to be unmixed without any sort of restrictions (e.g., minimum determinable fraction), impracticalities (e.g., negative fractions), or trade-offs (e.g., either positivity or unity sum) that may be associated with conventional unmixing techniques. The proposed mix-unmix concept is used to generate fraction images of four spectral classes from Landsat 7 ETM+data (aggregately resampled to 240 m) first principal component only. The correlation coefficients of the mix-unmix image fractions versus reference image fractions of the four end-members are 0.88, 0.80, 0.67, and 0.78.

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Thomas Ngigi, Ryutaro Tateishi, "Solving Under-Determined Models in Linear Spectral Unmixing of Satellite Images: Mix-Unmix Concept (Advance Report)in Journal of Imaging Science and Technology,  2007,  pp 360 - 367,  https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.(2007)51:4(360)

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